You asked, we answered (finally)
 

Many of you have inquired, so....Here's some Bandwidth and Web stats about soap108.com. Thank you Virginia, California, and New Jersey teams.

http://www.soap108.com/2003/stats/website/index.cfm
(note this is only from 13APR - 15APR a.m.)!!!

p.s. Does your team's website have a link to soap108.com? If not, why not? We bet you've downloaded a movie or two before and are grateful to be able to do so. Please return us a favor and help spread the word about SOAP. :)

Your help in this regard will help avoid thread starters such as this one (no offense) : http://www.chiefdelphi.com/forums/sh...threadid=20206


Best Regards,
SOAP Team
Team 108 - SigmaC@T
Motorola & Dillard HS & Taravella HS
Plantation, FL

www.soap108.com

<imagines how much that costs> :ahh:

Thank you so much! :)

Ok, so here's what I've found so far:

Looking at the server, I'm better that one of the guys on 108 is hosting the site off of Verizon DSL, who aren't too strict about bandwidth limitations. And if questioned, it'd be 'for a good educational cause and not for downloading illegal shizzle', so I doubt Verizon would mind.

Am I correct about the server?

Yan, I doubt it as I don't see any verizon routers between them and me. Maybe worldcom, but who doesn't have a worldcom router between them and the majority of the interent?

Greg

:)
 

Nice try. Keep digging.

p.s. Remember as you're searching and posting things like this the phrase "Gracious Professionalism".

No, that's not a clue, it a ... hmmm... request. You can edit the home addresses, phone #'s, personal names, etc.. out of these types of posts.

Thanks,
KA-108 :cool:

You want us to edit public information out of our posts here?

Just make it less accessible. Not everyone knows how to search for this stuff.

KA-108 :cool:

Re: :)
 

Sry, I meant to edit out the adress and phone #. I didn't catch that second set the first time.

As for gracious professionalism, don't give me spiel. Your whole site is devoted basically to getting information about matches and especially information about other teams. It does a great job at it.

I just am curious and also want to find out information; how in the world you guys have so much bandwidth to spare :)

They were averaging about 2 GB per day, from those 2-3 days in the graph. Most high-end hosting packages give you about 50GB per month, at least. And, they've been working with NASA lately, I believe, so I'm sure they could get all the bandwidth they could ever want. :)

http://www.soap108.com/2003/stats/we...itsByState.gif

The number 461 makes me giggle!

Re: Re: :)
 

Yeah...but no contact info on other teams. ;) (Wasn't trying to preach to the choir.)

I'm not sure that we want to comment on that right now. I guess the lame answer is we pay for it. But if you find more details let us know via PM that you found it and how...that is if you wish to share. But what do you plan to do with that info once you find it? That's the question.

KA-108 :cool:

And not all the movies are there yet! We expect to have 99% of them uploaded by Sunday.

KA-108 :cool:

thanks for all the great comments.
yeah, this was definitely our best match.
too bad the opposition cleared the field of all the
crates thereby killing off our QP's.
We made it to the semi finals when our drill transmission gave out AGAIN!:ahh:

A ping request to soap108.com gets us the ip of 63.99.241.45, and an WHOIS lookup tells us the block of IP addresses is owned by UUNet Technologies. A trip to their website reveals that UUNet is actually a division of MCI Worldcom that specializes in wholesale internet (a traceroute confirms this - the last hop was done through a wcom.net router).

A domain name whois, on the other hand, shows us the information which was mentioned in a previous post. Nothing really useful here, except that the contact information is listed in Ft. Lauderdale. soap108 lists his Location (here on CD) as Plantation, FL, and Mr. Mapquest reveals that Plantation is, infact, a suburb of Ft. Lauderdale.

Anyways, the point is that all this public database information tells us absolutely nothing about how much soap108 pays for their bandwidth - since uunet is a wholesale distributor, soap108 may be getting their bandwidth through uunet directly, or (more likely), through some kind of resaler (honestly, I don't know enough about this area of business to make a guess at it). So unless someone can figure out this piece of the puzzle, I'm affraid we'll never know just how much soap is putting into the FIRST community.

heh
 

Nice work DanMan. Keep digging. But if and when you or anyone does find a dollar amount, please do not post it. Keep it to yourself. "GP"

The alumni and students put undefined amounts of time and energy into FIRST, with not all that much payback......... The $ is really secondary.

p.s. I don't actually own the domain- a co-worker and Dillard Alumni classmate does... that's why Ft.L vs. Plnt.

KA-Moto108 :cool:

Heyyyy! What about the match 82 (newton) video? :)

Heeeeelp! Please!

-> And thanks for all the others! =D